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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Skills devolution to boost jobs market by one million

By Martin Ford | 11 July 2022

Devolution of skills funding could allow a million people to return to the jobs market, new resea...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Kickstarting new ways to recruit

By Cllr John Chilver | 29 June 2022

The success of the Kickstart scheme at Buckinghamshire Council shows it has been a worthwhile inv...

BUSINESS

Let LEPs grow the skills provision

By Mark Bretton | 29 June 2022

It defies logic that local enterprise partnerships are being needlessly frozen out of the bidding...

WHITEHALL

LEPs 'needlessly frozen out' on skills

By Dan Peters | 27 June 2022

Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) are being ‘needlessly frozen out’ of bidding for skills fundi...

SOLACE

Facing up to the workforce capacity challenge

By Matt Prosser | 27 June 2022

Without intervention and investment we are headed towards a situation of crisis, with gaps in our...

HEALTH

Burnham attacks Whitehall bidding culture

By Michael Burton | 21 June 2022

Central Government wastes more money than local government because of the bidding culture, Greate...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Survival skills in a candidate-short market

By Jonathon Sheppard | 15 June 2022

With a lot of movement within the sector since the pandemic began, Jonathon Sheppard assesses the...

INNOVATION

Time for bold action on devo

By Adam Hawksbee | 14 June 2022

As Whitehall pulls power into the centre, it erodes local bodies’ capacity and capability, says A...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Grasping the spirit of Chamberlain

07 June 2022

After 150 years, local government is still talking about former Birmingham mayor Joseph Chamberla...

EDUCATION

International approaches to addressing NEETs

By Anna Round | 06 June 2022

The UK’s NEET (not in education, employment or training) rate of 14% has changed very little in 2...

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